In Pyatigorsk many were subjected to torture and
criminal treatment' including suspension from the ceiling and other
methods. Many of the victims of these tortures were then shot.

In Krasnodar some 6,700 civilians were murdered by poison gas in
gas vans, or were tortured and shot.

In the Stalingrad region more than 40,000 persons were tortured
and killed. After the Germans were expelled from Stalingrad, more
than a thousand mutilated bodies of local inhabitants were found with
marks of torture. One hundred and thirty-nine women had their arms
painfully bent backward and held by wires. From some their breasts
had been cut off and their ears, fingers, and toes had been
amputated. The bodies bore the marks of burns. On the bodies of the
men the five pointed star was burned with an iron or cut with a
knife. Some were disembowelled.

In Orel over 5,000 persons were murdered.

In Novgorod and in the Novgorod region many thousands of Soviet
citizens were killed by shooting, starvation, and torture. In Minsk
tens of thousands of citizens were similarly killed.

In the Crimea peaceful citizens were gathered on barges, taken
out to sea and drowned, over 144,000 persons being exterminated in
this manner.

In the Soviet Ukraine there were monstrous criminal acts of the
Nazi conspirators. In Babi Yar, near Kiev, they shot over 100,000
men, women, children, and old people. In this city in January 1942,
after the explosion in German Headquarters on Dzerzhinsky Street the
Germans arrested as hostages 1,250 persons  old men, minors,
women with nursing infants. In Kiev they killed over 195,000 persons.

In Rovno and the Rovno region they killed and tortured over
100,000 peaceful citizens.

In Dnepropetrovsk, near the Transport Institute, they shot or
threw alive into a great ravine 11,000 women, old men, and children.

In Kamenetz-Podolsk Region 31,000 Jews were shot and
exterminated, including 13,000 persons brought there from Hungary.

In the Odessa Region at least 200,000 Soviet
citizens were killed.

In Kharkov about 195,000 persons were either tortured to death,
shot, or gassed in gas vans.

In Gomel the Germans rounded up the population in prison, and
tortured and tormented them, and then took them to the center of the
city and shot them in public.